NAMASTE ART REVIEWS

Peaches, recently broke into the art world with a show at the Hamburg Kunstverein. The protagonist gets wrapped up in his superficial adoration of Peaches and is tricked into thinking the show was a good show. That’s until he meets his enemy in a bar and is embarrassed into understanding the show was actually a bad show.

1. Reference images: https://sites.google.com/view/peacheswhosjizzisthis/home
2.  Jean Tinguely at Stedelijk in 2017: https://www.stedelijk.nl/en/exhibitions/jean-tinguely-machine-spectacle
3. Tinguely short youtube clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Noe5-awlbfw

South African popular abstract painter Zander Blom announces to the world, with a manifesto printed and distributed at his new show, that he’s sick and tired of making work for everyone else! He now just wants to make work for himself, so that he can store it in his garage and so that he can feel free and justified. The protagonist finds this manifesto very cynical and notices a kind of sad irony where he wants to become Zander and Zander wants to become him.

1. Reference images: https://sites.google.com/view/garagism-zander-blom/home
2. Formal show documentation: https://www.stevenson.info/exhibition/5528
3. Matthew Blackman critique of the old stuff: https://www.stevenson.info/sites/default/files/2014_m_blackman_artthrob_august_2014.pdf
3. Gallery website: https://www.stevenson.info/artist/zander-blom

The protagonist is worried about NFT’s and what they could possibly mean for his art career. He endeavours to create his own NFT but then discovers that the same old problems come back to haunt him.  Plus a bonus section where he comes back to try correct some of his wrong takes.

Reference images: https://sites.google.com/view/nftdepressionrun/home

Zanele Muholi 1 & 2: Zanele Muholi has been making new paintings. They are obviously bad paintings for a number of reasons and yet no one wants to say anything about it! The protagonist wonders, what does this tell us about the structure of the art world? and how do we see ourselves as role players in a fight for a better tomorrow? The first episode introduces Zanele Muholi and some drama that previously surrounded the work, and the second episode lays out a critique of the new paintings and tries to ask about the structure of things.

Reference images: https://sites.google.com/view/namaste-art-reviews-ep1/home 

Zanele Muholi 1 & 2: Zanele Muholi has been making new paintings. They are obviously bad paintings for a number of reasons and yet no one wants to say anything about it! The protagonist wonders, what does this tell us about the structure of the art world? and how do we see ourselves as role players in a fight for a better tomorrow? The first episode introduces Zanele Muholi and some drama that previously surrounded the work, and the second episode lays out a critique of the new paintings and tries to ask about the structure of things.

Reference images: https://sites.google.com/view/namaste-art-reviews-ep1/home 

In this episode I explain everything, like what the shows about, and also that you should all listen and plug in and download and tell your mates and spread the word and also that art's great!!!!